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NEWS FROM SUFFOLK YACHT HARBOUR
NO 7 AUTUMN
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T h e f r i e n d l i e s t , m o s t w e l c o m i n g , i n d e p e n d e n t ya c h t m a r i n a o n t h e Ea s t C o a s t
WELCOME!
from Jonathan Dyke and
Mike Spear, Directors.
Harbour Light No 7 is packed with
news from Suffolk Yacht Harbour
and our fantastic group of affiliated
companies - who make this yacht
harbour so different from any other.
Suffolk Yacht Harbour
STAFF PROFILE NO 7
Timber or GRP - we have the technology
S
uffolk Yacht
Harbour’s mastery
of traditional and
modern refurbishment
techniques are under
examination at the
moment with major
projects on two very
different types of craft.
‘Sea Marge’
This old 35 ft double-ended
fishing boat was built by Smith
& Hutton in Dundee and
converted to a private vessel
some years ago. Her owner,
Mr P Harvey, has instructed us
to carry out major structural work
and repairs to her very pretty but badly rotted - rear end.
It is quite a challenge for
our shipwrights to say the least.
BOB GIBBON
boat movement manager
Bob (33) arrived at SYH in 1995
for a summer job in the chandlery
following four years at uni, graduating
with a degree in engineering product
design. To cut a long story short - the
product design job never appeared
and Bob signed on permanently at the
yacht harbour at the end of ‘95.
He moved from the chandlery into
the complex logistics of boat moving
with Chris Nunn and recently has
been involved in the re-arrangement
of all the hardstanding spaces during
construction of the west harbour.
Bob cannot afford to make mistakes
in his job - but he does admit to one:
He brought the lovely motor cruiser
“Juliagee”ashore one Friday evening
when she was due to be committee
boat at a regatta next morning! As
soon as the mistake was realised, the
troops were rallied and she was
re-launched in the nick of time.
Bob’s comes from a yachting family
and he remembers cruising in his
father’s Dufour-designed Arpege from
the age of 4. The boat was based at
Walton & Frinton Y C where Bob also
spent happy years sailing and racing
Mirrors and Lasers on the Backwaters.
The Arpege is still in the family and
has now been passed down to Bob’s
older brother.
Four years studying design have
certainly left an artistic mark with Bob
and he is a particularly creative amateur
photographer - as can be seen by his
stunning winter ‘Orwellscape’ below.
He has a passion for speed on and
off the water. He has owned a pretty
quick RIB and also enjoys customising
and competing in very powerful 4WD
vehicles.
He is married to Emma and as we
went to press, we are delighted to
announce the arrival of their first child,
Charlotte Libby.
Winter
sunset
Grown oak frames
Originally built some 50
years ago from douglas fir on
grown oak frames, the port
topside from amidships to the
Many of ‘Sea Marge’s’ rotten frames have been
replaced with new oak while larch planking is
taking the place of the old douglas fir.
stern post is in a poor state
and we are replacing a number
of frames and replanking in
larch. The beam shelf is being
replaced as well as deck beams
and a large part of the after
deck and original sub-deck.
All the old fastenings are
being removed and replaced
with 4in galvanised boat nails.
The seams are being recaulked with Egyptian cotton
and Sikaflex.
‘Linden’
‘Linden’ is an entirely
different proposition being a
long-keeled grp yacht of the
‘Neptunian 33’ class built in
the ‘seventies by Shuttlewoods
from Tyler mouldings and owned
by Mr D Simonds. She is ketch
rigged with a rigid doghouse.
We have completed a full
topside respray using top-ofthe range ‘Awlgrip’ two-pack
‘Linden’ gleams
with her new
topside respray.
paints to produce a really
impressive, deep gloss finish in
pale blue.
Her underwater regions
have been gelcoat peeled and
we are currently applying a full
WEST system epoxy process to
give this elegant, 30-year old
yacht a new lease of life.
regatta season
“then turn left into open water . . .”
If you have not been to the yacht harbour for
a few months - you’re in for a big surprise.
Suffolk Yacht Harbour’s
regatta programme
gets busier every year.
The new west harbour is now
full of water and the area we have
created looks positively enormous.
If you turn to port once inside the
entrance, you’ll see what we mean.
Of course there are many
more pontoons to put in place yet
and the electricity and water
supplies will be installed over the
winter. We are also about to start
building a very smart new toilet,
shower block and laundry ready
for the scheduled completion date
in Spring 2005.
Now that the hardstanding
Re-surfaced hardstanding area.
area is clear, level and re-surfaced,
we are at last back to full capacity
ashore - quite an achievement
considering the sheer scale of the
new harbour.
We have also been conscientiously ‘green’ in turning the spoil
New meadow and tree-planting
from the dig back into meadow,
with new tree planting.
While trawling through our
photographic archives, we came
across a few black and white
pictures from 1972 which clearly
show just how far we have come!
Early days. Suffolk Yacht Harbour 1972
The Bermudan Brigade returned
in force with over 40 yachts for
SYH’s third Classic Regatta over
the weekend of June 12-13th.
For the first time the East Coast
Stella fleet turned up in numbers
and showed how well they perform
on handicap. Mick Willet’s Polaris
took the Clarke & Carter Classic
Yacht Trophy as overall winner.
The criteria for entry: bermudan
rigged, wooden yachts built before
1970 has struck a chord with classic
yacht owners who come from far
and wide to attend. Next year’s
Mick Willet’s Stella No 99 Polaris
won the Classic Regatta
dates are provisionally 11/12 June.
Jonathan Dyke at Suffolk Yacht
Harbour has all the details.
SYH also hosted the Port of
Felixstowe Regatta - the East Coast’s
premier event with over 70 yachts
competing - as well as welcoming
the East Coast Old Gaffers for 2-3
nights and providing excellent rates
and facilities for visiting yacht clubs.
refitting this winter?
Don’t forget our chandlery is fully stocked in
readiness and we have some very special offers
on the fittings and equipment you are going to
need to get those jobs finished for Spring.
Come in and have a look.
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‘Madam’s’ mighty mast
Many hands make mast work: Jonny (left) Nige and
Sam make final checks before the big stick goes in.
First reports from the owner
Martin Myerscough suggest
that the yacht’s handling has
been transformed.
The lighter rig has made
her much less tender with
reduced pitching. “A much
better boat all round.”
The beautiful Levington based ‘Madam’ had the
misfortune to lose her wooden mast while cruising
off Norway last year. Replacing the whole rig turned out
to be Rig Magic’s biggest project of summer 2004
High-tech ditchcrawler
Another interesting project
was the rig for a new shallow
draft daysailer built by Upsons
of Aldeburgh for eminent
architect Sir Michael Hopkins.
Designed by Andrew
Wolstenholme, the strip
planked cedar, shoal draft
daysailer Windflower was
launched in May.
O
ne of the problems
with Madam’s wooden mast was its very
considerable weight so Nige
and the team specified a new
Nordic aluminium section for
the replacement spar.
Bringing the 26 metre
section back from the docks
pushed the capacity of Rig
Magic’s trailer to its limit, but
work was soon underway.
The internal spec of the
mast was quite sophisticated
with 4” Frederiksen custom
ballrace sheeves running in
custom sheeve boxes. All the
internal halyards on Madam
exit the mast under the cabin
sole before re-emerging in
the cockpit.
The fully battened mainsail
runs on a custom Frederiksen
batten car system and flakes
down into the ‘Park Avenue’
We’d been having right
royal battle with this year’s
Cowes Week champion
Kiss belonging to David
Pinner - and also based at
Suffolk Yacht Harbour.
Just as the last race was
developing into a real fight
to the finish, we carelessly got
our mainsheet into an almighty
tangle, could not free off and
our rival ‘Kissed’ us goodbye.
So 2nd overall - one better
than last year. But we did also
win the awesome Dubarry
Boot - and free boots for the
whole crew - which did make
the trip well worthwhile!
NOW HEAR THIS!
Anxious moments
section custom boom another major piece of Rig
Magic engineering.
To replicate the classic look
of a wooden spars, the mast
boom and spreaders have all
been given a wood grain
finish by a specialist painter
brought in by SYH
The new rig was installed
at the end of July and
Madam left in August for an
extended west country cruise.
Fancy driving this rig through the Suffolk lanes . . .?
STOP PRESS: Crikey V! Overall winner of Sail East 2004,
Class 2 Winners and X332 Class winners.
She is 10m (32'8") LOA and
draws 0.53m (21") with centreplate raised and features twin
rudders and ballast bilge keels.
Sir Michael’s land has
frontage to the River Alde
and he needed a modern
‘ditchcrawler’ that would be
able to get to the upper
reaches of the East Coast
rivers. Rig Magic built the
easily handled, full battened
rig from a Nordic mast and
Selden boom. She has a big
roached mainsail, no backstay
and a self-tacking jib.
Racing season
The enormous workload
this summer meant that
Crikey V!’s planned season
had to be somewhat curtailed.
Nevetheless, we managed
to get to the X-332 Nationals
in Ramsgate and - as last year were leading the regatta
going into the final day.
Rig Magic Suffolk Yacht Harbour Levington Ipswich IP10 0LN
Tel: 01473 655089 Fax: 01473 655091
email: info@rigmagic.co.uk www.rigmagic.co.uk
We’ve said it before, but
every year it gets more important to get any work you need
ready for next season into us
early. NOW is a really good
time. We have maximum
capacity between now and
Christmas - and any work will
cost you less, too.
We are very keen to avoid
situations where a yachtsman
pops his head round our door
just before Easter saying:
“Could you have a quick
look at my furler - it’s very
stiff - we first noticed it at the
end of last season”
Always keen to help, we
do just that, but the quick
look reveals major bearing
problems and a regrettable
drop down to the bottom of
a very long queue for our
unfortunate customer.
So if you are expecting to
go afloat in time for Easter
2005 - and you have work
you know now will need to be
done by then, please come
and see us as soon as possible your forward planning helps
us give better service to everyone in the busy spring time.
French Marine M
Half a propellor
and a failed ‘P’
bracket.
‘P’ Bracket Problems
Matthew was called out
recently to a fairly new Feeling
yacht which had been in difficulties and taking on quite a
lot of water from the stern.
The ‘P’ bracket had sheered
off and the prop and shaft
were dangling beneath the hull
- causing the aft seal to open
and allow green stuff to make
its way into the hull.
The bracket failure was
caused by massive vibration
following the loss of half of
the propellor - this itself the
result of fouling a fishing line.
The P-Bracket was badly
weakened through electolysis
caused by lack of bonding to
a sacrificial anode.
A cautionary tale of how
one thing leads to another . . .
Get those anodes
checked out.
Matt at work on
the troublesome
big 412hp Volvo
When is a twin not a twin?
When Harbour Light paid a
visit to French Marine in
September, Mattthew was
deep in the bowels of a big
Ocean Star 48 powerboat trying to find out why one her
two TAMD-74 412hp diesels
was way down on power.
He was not short of ideas
but the EDC, electronic fly-bywire engine control system
which incorporates plug-in key
diagnosis was proving a bit
tricky to say the least.
Slippery customer
One diagnosis that proved
somewhat easier - although
with a surprising result - was
the overheating problem being
experienced by the yacht ‘Layla.’
Cause of the problem?
This 6 inch eel was trapped
between the seawater inlet and
the filter.
Sadly, its life was at an end
due to the rather hot water it
had found itself in.
Fifteen years of top flight engineering, serv
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Clarke & Carter Interyacht
Yacht Fair 2004
This year, the fair will be
held from the 21-24th
October. We are expecting in
excess of 100 pre-owned
yachts to be exhibited in the
show which has become a
landmark for yacht sales on
the East Coast.
In 2003 we successfully
completed the sale of 39% of
boats entered for the show - if
you are considering parting
with your yacht, do not miss
this event!
Call Stephen Carter or
Duncan Lougee for full details
about entering your yacht.
New Agency
We are delighted to announce
that we have been appointed
as East Coast dealers for the
stunning range of Bavaria
Motor Boats. We currently
have a demonstrator 29 available for viewing at our
Burnham office and hope to
have her on display at the
Yacht Fair - do come and have
a look. The range comprises
25, 29, 32 and 37 ft models
each with a choice of two
layouts. Part exchanges are
available against all the ranges
of new yachts we market.
Market Report
We came into 2004 with
doom and gloom forecasted
about interest rate rises and
the housing boom coming
to a halt.
These have so far come to
nothing in the yachting market.
Bavaria 29 Sport
We have had a very busy
year on used boat sales and
are averaging some two sales
every three working days!
Our commissioning team
has been hard at work launching and handing over a large
number of new yachts to their
proud owners and demand
seems to have continued at
this year’s (biggest ever)
Southampton Boat Show.
CLARKE & CARTER INTERYACHT Suffolk Yacht Harbour, Levington, Ipswich, Suffolk IP10 0LN Tel: 01473 659681 Fax: 01473 659758 email: levington@clarkeandcarter.co
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Motors
Bob Spalding Marine & Leisure
ALLANTE LX 825i NEW FOR 2004!
ALLANTE LX 535i NEW FOR 2004!
Entertaining Allante Entertaining Allante
Also brand new at the Southampton
Boat Show was the new Campion
Allante 535i br Turbo Diesel - 120hp
SPECIAL DEAL: £16,995.
Power by MerCruiser or Volvo (poa)
SERIOUS POWERBOATING FOR £5 AN HOUR!
New Yanmar YM range
The first of Yanmar’s newgeneration compact diesels,
the 29HP (21.3kW) 3YM30
inboard and 3YM30C doubleseal saildrive version, have
gone into full production.
Based on a completely
redesigned cylinder block and
combustion system, the new
engines are quieter, produce
more torque and run cleaner
than the GM models they
replace. (The evergreen IGM10
remains in production).
Naturally aspirated, these
latest Yanmars have an extra
12% displacement, now at
1.116 litres, rated 29HP at
3,600 rpm.
powered by
Just launched at this year’s Southampton Boat Show, the
new Campion Allante LX 825i has an abundance of space.
An enormous C-shaped aft cockpit has removable cushions
and inserts that allow many variations on the layout including conversion to a huge berth. Call for Prices!
For 28 years Campion have been producing world class boats that
are exciting to drive and a pleasure to own and Bob Spalding Marine
are the sole importers for the UK and Ireland.
From runabouts and sports utilities to high performance and luxurious
cruisers, Campion boats have comfort, safety, storage space, reliability
and performance in abundance.
Among the many innovations featured in the Campion range are
APEX Hulls for better acceleration and fuel economy, Fibreglass stringers
for strength and to eliminate rot, Kevlar reinforced hulls in the LX and
Chase models, and VISTECH - a fibreglass finish which leaves components
40% lighter and 60% stronger than traditional fibreglassing methods.
With so many boats available in the Campion range, your biggest
problem will be choosing one.
To learn more about Campion Boats please feel free to Contact Us
or Request A Brochure.
I N F L ATA B L E S
Yam Inflatables offer outstanding value for money in a tough, attractive, comfortable and versatile
craft. Three model types in a variety of lengths equates to sixteen different boats to choose from.
The Yacht Harbour, Levington, Ipswich, Suffolk IP10 0LN.
Tel: 01473 659674 email: sales@bobspaldingmarine.com
Managing Director: Tim Reinman Company Secretary: Gabe Reinman
Boat Sales: Jamie Hales After Sales and Engineering: Antony Kettlety
Secretary/Administrator: Nicky Cracknell Accounts: Jemma Mansfield
Exceptional products, advice, support and prices
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Check out these Fantastic
YAM inflatable +YAMAHA engine package deals
YAM 230T+F2.5 AMHS rrp £988
Bob Spalding Price: £928 or £77.33
a month interest free over a year
YAM 260STI+F2.5 AMHS £1268
YAM 230T+F4.0 AMHS rrp £1178
Bob Spalding Price: £1118
YAM 260STI+F4.0 AMHS £1458
Visit our website:
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YAM 250T+F2.5 AMHS
Bob Spalding Price: £958
YAM 330S+F2.5 AMHS £1368
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YAM 330S+F4.0 AMHS £1948
YAM 330S+F6.0 AMHS £2058
to enter our monthly competition
to win a £50 Voucher and at the
end of the year all names go into
the hat for a brand new YAM 230!
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Quantum Sail Design Group
accessories made from water
repellant materials. The range
offers protection, comfort,
storage and safety solutions
for many areas of the boat.
Please call or drop in to
see the full range which are
fully packaged.
Here are a few examples:
vice and maintenance
Levington Suffolk
www.frenchmarine.com
new website
AGENTS FOR JEANNEAU AND
MOODY YACHTS AND
BAVARIA MOTORBOATS
PART EXCHANGE AVAILABLE
o.uk www.interyacht.co.uk
The UK end of Quantum Sail
Design Group - the lofts here
at Suffolk Yacht Harbour and at
Hamble Point Marina - now
have their own website at
www.quantumsailsgbr.com
It’s got everything you ever
wanted to know about us and the individuals who work
at the two centres.
There’s a fully up-to-date
news and results section with
details of racing and cruising
sails, sailcare, canvaswork and
even a page where can ask for
a sail quote. Check it out!
The full international website
remains in its usual place at:
www.quantumsails.com
winter is coming
. . . and now is the time
to let us have your sails for
their annual service:
VALETING
Sails operate in a hostile
environment. Salt and airborne
pollutants can cause serious
damage to even the best kept
sails. Similarly, constant wear
and tear requires careful repair
and maintenance. An end of
season overhaul is essential for
the longevity of your inventory.
Our service includes:-
Awning - can be used as a sunshade or awnng. Lightweight.
Halyard opening with velcro
fastening. Available in three sizes.
• Thorough washing to remove salt
• Drying in preparation to storage
• Careful inspection and overhaul
• Alteration to improve shape
DAMAGE REPAIRS
It is important that any
damage is repaired as quickly
as possible in order to prevent
deterioration.
Sails can be dropped or
collected at any time of day
or night - ring the loft for
detailed instructions.
Large cockpit bag - one mesh
pocket. Self-draining fabric pockets.
Easy to remove for storage. Ideal
for flybridges & RIBs, sportsboats
and keelboats.
blue performance
We are very pleased to
announce the addition of Blue
Performance products to
complement our own custom
canvaswork.
Blue Performance is a high
quality, durable range of sewn
Sail ties - elasticated. Clip together.
Easy to use with D-ring adjustment.
Fusion Smart Sails. For Big Boats only.
Fusion Cuben Fibre.
Fusion ‘m’ is the most advanced yarn-based composite sail
construction in the world. It can be compared to 3DL, Tape Drive
Ultra, 4D and other yarn based systems. Fusion Cuben Fibre
enters into another realm of composite construction entirely.
It moves beyond fibre bundles (yarns) into the micro world of
monofilaments. Fusion Cuben Fibre represents the absolute state
of the art in composite sail construction for sails not made on a
sail-by-sail basis. The downside to Cuben Fibre is cost. Its
sophistication and complexity means it simply cannot be currently
produced on a cost effective basis with yarn based systems. It is
also very difficult to work with, it requires extensive experience
and engineering. The real advantage is in applications that
demand high fibre density (ie - high load sails).
Fusion Cuben Fibre is a big boat product.
CF laminates use unidirectional prepreg tapes of in-line plasma
treated extended chain polymer fibers, and carbon, spread to
monofilament levels on polyester and other unique films. The
beauty of the CF process is that it involves neither twisted filaments
nor weaves. This reduces 'creep' and 'crimp' to levels undetectable
with standard testing equipment.
The result is superior sail shape holding ability. CF sails are
much lighter and have many times the life and the damage
tolerance of the best, similarly performing substitutes.
CF is much thinner than other laminates and retains strength
during repeated flexing. Competing Aramid and Carbon laminates
lose nearly 80% of their strength after being folded 250 times,
while CF retains nearly 100% of its original properties.
Left: Tazo, Marcus Fiala's hot
new Bruce Farr 36 foot one
design on her very first sail.
Cuben Fibre mainsail weighs a
tiny 34 lbs, some 12 lbs (30%)
less than new carbon 3DL built
for the same boat.
The sail was built with no
measurements, only the
sailplan, and demonstrates
vividly how the Quantum
design team's experience and
design tools put them in a class
of their own when it comes to
technically demanding custom
design projects.
www.quantumsailsgbr.com
email: east@quantumsailsgbr.com
QUANTUM SAIL DESIGN GROUP Suffolk Yacht Harbour, Levington, Ipswich, IP10 0LN Tel: 01473 659878 Fax: 01473 659197
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GOLD XL3 CHARTS:
REVEAL GREATER
DETAIL WITH EVERY
ZOOM AS SHOW HERE
Navionics XL3 Charts New Furuno NavPilot 500 Bargain Cobra Handheld VHF
mode when integrated with
navigation sensors.
The NavPilot™ 500
self-learning and adaptive
software, providing the
ultimate in course keeping
capability. Essential parameters dynamically adjust for
vessel speed, trim, draught,
tide and wind effects, dead
band, weather, etc. These
parameters are stored in
system memory and continuously optimized.
Simple one-touch mode
selection provides reliable
steering and course control.
Multiple customizable
display modes include
Rudder angle, Heading,
Highway, Compass rose,
Wind, Nav Info, etc.
The NavPilot 500™ is very
competitively priced at
£1660 ex vat.
Triple whammy
Navionics have launched
their new XL3 range of cartridges as used on the new
Raymarine ‘C’ series Radar.
Each cartridge has three
times the area coverage of
previous cartography aand
they retail at £189 ex vat.
R&J Marine can burn you
a new chart while you wait.
New FURUNO NavPilot
Furuno
NavPilot 500
Furuno’s new NavPilot™
500 is a revolutionary
autopilot designed for a
variety of vessels.
The operation modes
include Auto (Heading
control), Advanced Auto
utilizing automatic ground
tracking control, Auto Work
for net towing and NAV
Quality Sounder
Also new from Furuno is
the LS4100 Dual Frequency
Sounder. Suitable for the
small boat pleasure sailor or
sea angler, this superb
instrument costs only £180 ex
vat including the transducer.
The sounder features:
Top quality
sounder at
a bargain
orice - the
Furuno
LS4100
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High-contrast monochrome
5” LCD (240 x 320 pixels)
Dual Frequency 50/200 kHz, 300
W rms
"White Line" and "Sea-Through"
technology discriminates echoes
from the seabed or anywhere in
the water column
Wind direction and speed display
with appropriate sensor.
"Mini-navigator" feature pro
videos 12 "Go To" waypoints
with programmable names and
registers in VideoPlotter at the
same time by marking waypoints.
Unique Bottom-Lock Fish Alarm
provides consistent audible bottom
fish detection in varying depths
just launhed by Raymarine
is the H6 system which is an
integrated navigation,
entertainment and security
system, which is PC based.
This is for boats of 55
feet and over and gives you
15” High bright colour monitors which can show navigation, entertainment and
security in one seamless system. H6 gives the customer
complete customisation of
the system as screens and
data can be shown in
graphic, chart and alphnumeric form.
The H6 system costs
around £80k excluding the
plasma screen.
Waterproof VHF handheld for £129.99!
We’ve just taken into stock these excellent VHFs
which are completely new to the UK Market.
The standard COBRA handheld costs £129.99 inc vat
and the built-in DSC version is £159.99 inc vat.
Raymarine News
Further to the success of
of the new Raymarine single
station ‘C’ series colour
radar/plotter in 6”, 8” and
12” versions, Raymarine will
be launching a dual station
HSB2 “E” series at the end
of the year. This will eventually replace the “R” series
radar/plotter systems which
were market leaders in their
time. Another new product
R&J MARINE ELECTRONICS LTD Suffolk Yacht Harbour Levington Ipswich IP10 0LN
TELEPHONE: 01473 659737 FAX: 01473 659877 email: julie@rjmarine-electronics.com
The second leg of the ‘Around Britain’ finished
at Milford Haven and before the third leg began,
the yachts were able to compete in the prestigious
Cork Racing Week - where again the weather was
far from ideal.
Powering across
E.A.S.T.
The East Anglian Sailing Trust’s primary aim
is to enable people with disabilities to enjoy the
freedom and excitement of sailing
The motorboat assisted passage/rally to
Holland, Belgium and France in July was a great
success with decent weather at last. The object
was to give skippers the confidence to take their
vessels abroad independently and everyone
enjoyed crossing the North Sea, negotiating the
Dutch locks and motoring through the enchanting
inland waterways. We hope to repeat this cruise
next year.
A visually impaired
sailor takes the helm
during one of the
introductory sails
Get qualified this winter
Proper, hands-on navigation on one of our Beneteau 33.7s.
East Anglian Sea School
Racing & Cruising 2004/5
2004 - busier than ever
the Channel Islands and many
European destinations.
The 2004 season has been
extremely hectic with students
attending our practical and shorebased courses. Student own boat
tuition has also played a large part
in our busy programme. Students
are becoming more aware that
formal tuition and safety training is
of paramount importance due to
the waterways becoming more busy
than ever over the last few years.
In our demanding schedule we
were chosen again this year to give
formal training to the coxwains of
the Harwich Pilot boats together
with the Caister lifeboatmen in
order for them to comply with the
regulations required by the MCA.
Team building with EASS
Spreading our wings
It is particularly encouraging to
see that EASS’s tuition is being
recognised from much further
afield than the UK. During the
summer months, Peter Smith was
flown out to Geneva to give RYA
Powerboat tuition. Other serious
interest has generated from Malta,
Corporate sailing days are also on
the increase with more companies
choosing to build sailing into their
team building and management
development structures. These
events are designed to integrate
company’s specific requirements
into a day’s sailing, allowing the
participants to experience and
enjoy all the fun of being on the
water with our qualified RYA
instructors. It has been widely
accepted that corporate sailing
days are beneficial to employees
and managers, all helping to
contribute to a more eficient
working environment.
Our ‘Around Britain’ cruise and
Yachtmaster Ocean passage was
held during June and July but the
weather was seriously unseasonal
with high winds, rain and very little
sunshine.
Even so, all who took part
commented on how much they
had enjoyed the experience.
Throughout the coming autumn, winter and
spring we will be holding numerous RYA
navigational and shorebased courses in readiness
for next season. Additional survival and first aid
courses will be included into the programme for
sailors racing in the 2005 Fastnet. All three of our
Beneteau 33.7 yachts will be taking part in this
classic from the Isle of Wight, round the Fastnet
rock off southern Ireland - and back to Plymouth
leaving the Scillies to starboard. This package will
include First Aid, Survival and race training. Dates
are 13-20 August 2005 - so let us know soon if
you would like to go. We are also planning several
sailing trips to Holland and Belgium - a great way
to gain mileage towards a higher qualification.
Excel again
We will also be at the 2005 London Boat Show
at EXCEL (6-16 Jan ) and this will be a great
opportunity for you to chat to our instructors on
all aspects of RYA shorebased and practical
tuition. See you there!
The motorboat flotilla moored up for the night on
the Dutch canal system.
EAST ANGLIAN SEA SCHOOL Suffolk Yacht Harbour, Levington, Ipswich, IP10 0LN.
Telephone: 01473 659992 Fax: 01473 659994
email: sales@eastanglianseaschool.com www.eastanglianseaschool.com
Our activities include:
• Keelboat sailing from SYH in our 5 squibs two evenings a week April to September
• A training programme towards RYA qualifications
• Yacht cruising weekends and a cruising week (mainly for the visually impaired)
• Racing with the squib fleet of the Haven Ports Yacht Club
In July, four yachts skippered by volunteers and crewed by sighted and visually impaired
members, embarked on a one week East-coast cruise visiting a number of anchorages including
Walton Backwaters, Brightlingsea and Bradwell. The number of yachts taking part was a little
disappointing compared to previous years and not all those who expressed an interest could be
offered a berth. However, it was enjoyed by all who took part. Two introductory weekends,
in June and September, also enabled a number of visually impaired people to get afloat.
The keelboat sailing draws to a close on 15th Sept after another successful season with an
average of 4 disabled sailors having sailed on 39 out of a possible 44 evenings. One of our
sailors who attained an RYA Level 2 certificate last year has become a keelboat skipper and
she joins the ranks of helpers. Another of our disabled members has bought his own yacht,
RADIUS II, which he is making available for EAST use.
We are grateful to SYH for minimising disruption during the marina extension work and
their continued support for EAST.
We could not operate without the skippers, who offer the use of their yachts for the
cruising and our team of able-bodied helpers and are always looking for more skippers and
helpers. If you are interested in sailing with us, helping or know someone who might be
interested, please contact one of the sailing secretaries.
Please contact, for Squib sailing, Colin Williamson, (01473) 785600,
email: williaca@btinternet.com, and for cruising, Carol Bloyce,
(01473) 724780, email c.bloyce@btinternet.com Membership Sec. is
Lesley Dawson, (01728) 747057, email:
admin@east-anglian-sailing-trust.org.uk.
The latest information about EAST is
available on our website:
www.east-anglian-sailing-trust.org.uk
EAST ANGLIAN SAILING TRUST
SUFFOLK YACHT HARBOUR
LEVINGTON IPSWICH IP10 0LN